Throughout the memoir, “The Color of Water”, the point of view changes in every chapter. This is done to give the reader a more in depth perspective of James's mother, Ruth. It allows the reader to see the decisions she had made and how they affected her life. While each chapter is about a different character, both character’s story lines related to each other. They are connected through race, lessons learned, and family. Mentioned many times during the piece, James is an African American boy with a white Jewish mother. This automatically causes controversy as James grows up in New York. Society, during this time period, was appalled with interracial couples. James struggles to understand this as a young boy, and constantly questions what
